Alma Whitten

Alma Whitten joined Google in 2003 and is currently Google's Director of Privacy for Product and Engineering. She received her computer science Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in 2004 where she specialized in human factors challenges for computer security.

Google Publications

Transparency and Choice: Protecting Consumer Privacy in an Online World

Alma Whitten, Sean Harvey, Ian Fette, Betsy Masiello, Jochen Eisinger, Jane Horvath

W3C Workshop on Web Tracking and User Privacy, W3C (2011), pp. 3
Engineering Privacy in an Age of Information Abundance

Betsy Masiello, Alma Whitten

Intelligent Privacy Management Symposium (2010)
Generative usability: security and user centered design beyond the appliance

Luke Church, Alma Whitten

New Security Paradigms Workshop (2009)

Previous Publications

Making Security Usable

Alma Whitten

Ph.D. Thesis, Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science (2004)
Safe Staging for Computer Security

Alma Whitten, J.D. Tygar

HCI and Systems Security Workshop, Computer/Human Interaction (2003)
Why isn't the Internet secure yet?

J.D. Tygar, Alma Whitten

Aslib Proceedings (2000)
Why Johnny Can't Encrypt: A Usability Evaluation of PGP 5.0

Alma Whitten, J.D. Tygar

Proceedings of the 9th USENIX Security Symposium (1999)
Usability of Security: A Case Study

Alma Whitten, J.D. Tygar

Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science (1998)
WWW Electronic Commerce and Java Trojan Horses

J.D. Tygar, Alma Whitten

Proceedings of the 2nd USENIX Workshop on Electronic Commerce (1996)

Alma Whitten

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Previous Publications